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دَرِينٌ درى درين : see دَرِنٌ. ― -b2- Also, (S, M, K,) and ↓ دُرَانَةٌ , (M, K,) Dry herbage: (M:) and whatever is broken in pieces, of [plants of the kind termed] حَمْض, or of trees, or of herbs, or leguminous plants, (M, K,) of such as are eaten without being cooked, or are slender and succulent or soft or sweet, and such as are hard and thick, or thick and inclining to bitterness, or thick and rough, when old (M) and dry: (M, K:) or دَرِينٌ signifies what is broken in pieces, of herbage, when it is old (S, TA) and withered, or wasted, and black; (so in a copy of the S;) i. e. withered, or wasted, herbage; such as is seldom made use of by the camels: (S, TA:) or herbage that has become a year old, and then dried up: (Th, M:) dry herbage a year old: (Lth, T:) or dry and old herbage. (Ham p. 527.) ― -b3- [Hence,] أُمُّ دَرِينٍ (assumed tropical:) Sterile, or unfruitful, land. (S, K.) A poet says, “ تَعَالَ نُسَمِّطْ حُبَّ دَعْدٍ وَنَغْتَدِى
سَوَآءَيْنِ وَالمَرْعَى بِأُمِّ دَرِينِ
” [Come thou, let us keep to our love of Daad (a woman's name), and we will go forth early in the morning, both alike, though the pasturing be in sterile land]: he means, we will keep to our love, though the means of subsistence be strait. (S.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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